surely, *surely* I know people with stories that fit yes? send them in (no, no I haven't written any of my own ideas for it yet 😭)

Look down, back up. It’s us asking for more submissions. (but make them SFF please, we’ve been getting a lot of anything but) www.heartlines-spec.com/submission-g...

My poem in @heartlines-spec.com is free to read today! Writing this helped me laugh at a bad day. I hope that reading it could do the same for someone else🤖

Huge congrats to @heartlines-spec.com poets @mernadyerskinner.bsky.social and @brokenswanquill.bsky.social for getting shortlisted!!

✨ @heartlines-spec.com is open for submissions May 1 - 31 ✨ Send us your stories and poems, and don't self-reject! ✅ Fantasy and/or Sci-fi **WITH** ✅ a long-term relationship at the core (familial, platonic, or romantic) ⬇️ More guidelines ⬇️ www.heartlines-spec.com/submission-g...

Gooood morning friends! 💚 We are ✨thiiiis close✨ to hitting 50% of our base funding goal! Once that's secured we'll have our next volume LOCKED IN and we'll be able to set our sights on the future, and print! How far can we push this today? 👀

It's here! My poem about desire and hunger and destroying the thing you want by having it is free to read today on @heartlines-spec.com's website! So excited for this to be my first published poem. 😊💜 www.heartlines-spec.com/the-siren-af...

When people ask, "How can I promote my art when the world is going to shit" I hear that as, "How do I have the right to make art when the world is going to shit" And... We need art more than ever during such times. You need to be making art more than ever during such times.

my latest short story, "Of ember and dust", is currently available to all @heartlines-spec.com ! we have lesbian capybara researchers, lots of (literal) fire and weird stuff www.heartlines-spec.com/of-ember-and...

Early submissions from equity-deserving groups are still open for @heartlines-spec.com April 23-30! Send us your stories and poems!! ✍️ ✅ Sci-fi and/or Fantasy **WITH** ✅ Long-term relationship (familial, platonic, or romance) ⬇️ More info ⬇️ www.heartlines-spec.com/submission-g...

Post something you’re proud of. “After Ever, Happily” in @heartlines-spec.com About why our stories may need a different ending, and how that can be just as beautiful as the HEA we know💕

While this wasn't the first @heartlines-spec.com short story I read, Dan Peacock's Italic & Bold is one I definitely remember vividly. The writing is excellent and the relationship is strong, and using fonts/format to its best advantage.

not me being like "wow, capybara researchers, how cool" when I saw this and not realizing it was about my own story at @heartlines-spec.com

My poem "Permission" is now free-to-read @heartlines-spec.com! I hope this cozy underwater poem about love, acceptance, and family gives you the warm-fuzzies. 💍🪸🌊 www.heartlines-spec.com/permission-b...

Rumours are true! We are now open for short fiction and poetry submissions from equity-deserving groups. Give us your words, your anxiety dreams of electric sheep, your last gasp of a dying star. As always: make it SFF, make it long-term www.heartlines-spec.com/submission-g...

Early submissions for @heartlines-spec.com are open!! Send me your poems 🍽️

BEEP BOOP, I am your computer mother telling you to read this.

My flash “The Three Mothers You Will Never Meet” is free to read today over at @heartlines-spec.com! Go check it out if you like linen, cropworlds, space stations, mothers that you may or may not ever meet, or avocados 🥑 www.heartlines-spec.com/the-three-mo...

Fire! Not-Death! Salt! Heartbreak! Thank you for the write-up on Of ember and dust by Anne Liberton ❤️🧂 The story from Issue 10 is available to subscribers but will be free-to-read on April 28th. www.heartlines-spec.com/issue-10/

Does my story warn of satellite catastrophe? Yes. Is it about leaving home, aging parents, and inevitability? Also yes. “The Impossibility of Fall Prevention” in issue 10 of @heartlines-spec.com. www.heartlines-spec.com/the-impossib...

My poem is free to read today in @heartlines-spec.com It'd mean a whole lot if you gave it a read. www.heartlines-spec.com/embodied-anc...

"There will be no more gossamer ballgowns and no more soot-stained rags and no more poisoned candy and candied poison, no more sisters to drive black-painted nails through my back and whisper, told you so" Read "BeCause" by @ympang.bsky.social in @heartlines-spec.com 🩸

My poem "BeCause" is available to read online in @heartlines-spec.com! Family, fairy tales, royalty, and witches: www.heartlines-spec.com/because-by-y... #poetry #Canadianpoetry #fairytales #darkfantasy

Our crops are watered 😍 Thrilled to see The Last Two Gardeners of Mars by Irene W Collins on the shortlist! www.heartlines-spec.com/the-last-two...

“Prediction doesn’t change the inevitable result of gravity, the weight of who we are.” One of my most personal stories, “The Impossibility of Fall Prevention” is brought to you by the awesome folks @heartlines-spec.com. I hope it speaks to you. www.heartlines-spec.com/the-impossib...

I have a poem I'm really proud of in here!🤖🎉

Thank you Rebecca!!

guess who has a short story here 😉

My weird, achy, sorta-cannibalistic poem "The Siren, After a Meal" is in this issue. I'm a published poet as of today! 💜

Does my story warn of satellite catastrophe? Yes. Is it the most personal story I have published to date? Also yes. Glad to be able to share it.

My little mermaid retelling (with 100% more frogs and the forever war) is in here! Very excited to share this with you all.

It's here! It's here! I'm a published poet!

New story day!

Happy pub day! 🌊🪸💍

Issue 10 is now available for subscribers! Two pieces are available for all subscriber levels BUT if you give us a cool $18CAD, you get to read the whole thing RIGHT NOW!! www.heartlines-spec.com/issue-10/

"Five of us" by Jayasri Sridhar in @heartlines-spec.com issue 9 spotted!

LOOK AT IT🔥

Heartlines Spec's covers are always incredible, but this one is a standout!

LOOK! Look with your special eyes! Our cover for Issue 10 is inspired by a folktale of New Brunswick's ghost ship--a ghostly, firey schooner that appears in the Northumberland Strait. @itsbabypears.bsky.social used gorgeous colours to mimic the eerie effect of St. Elmo's Fire Coming March 31!

Lovin' the emojis here! My 📣📰🤖 poem will soon be available to read

I can't WAIT for you all to read these poems!!

One week until my poem "Permission" is in the world! 🪸🌊💍

One week until Issue 10! Water, family, and death are big themes (with cryptids lurking throughout). Get the vibes before you dive deep: Short Fiction 🚜🛰️☄️ by @pbarmby.bsky.social 👣👣👣 by Rachel Esser 🍄🏚️🍄 by @crystalkoo.bsky.social 🏝️♊👩‍✈️ by @bookended-islal.bsky.social

#SFFChat Thanks for hosting! I have a story in @heartlines-spec.com that's all about travelling between worlds (and eventually choosing to stay somewhere) -- seems like an appropriate thing to share for today's chat: www.heartlines-spec.com/between-worl...

An anthology you DO NOT want to miss! Featuring some of the incredible authors we've been so privileged to publish over this past decade! Please share this post with fans and readers of Black SFF. Guaranteed you will help someone find their next favorite storyteller in these pages!

Today on Backlist Lit, my first Backlist Lit Mag Roundup. Featuring poetry and fiction gems from @clarkesworldmagazine.com, @heartlines-spec.com, @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social and more ✨ backlistlit.wordpress.com/2026/03/15/f...

You have until April 1st (no foolsies) to vote! Heartlines is there under Best Magazine but please write-in any of your fav 2025 stories! We've had some absolute bangers If you're extra frisky, write-in Rebecca Bennett & Emily Yu as Best Editors www.heartlines-spec.com/past-issues/

It begins!!! ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

Huge congratulations to all the 2026 Rhysling Award nominees🎉 I am also very pleased and excited to spot 2 wonderful @heartlines-spec.com poems on the list 👀 🔮I Consult a Spiritualist by Merna Dyer Skinner 🕯️Missing You, No Matter Where I Am by Anna Madden Congrats!!! sfpoetry.org/wp/rhysling-...

"At the End of the World, Meet Me by the Vending Machines" got a nice shoutout here in Myna's roundup. Thank you! Check out the rest of the fabulous recs below, and if you want to read "Vending Machines" it is available for free with @heartlines-spec.com: www.heartlines-spec.com/at-the-end-o...